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Optimal control strategies for inhibition of protein aggregation.


ABSTRACT: Protein aggregation has been implicated in many medical disorders, including Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases. Potential therapeutic strategies for these diseases propose the use of drugs to inhibit specific molecular events during the aggregation process. However, viable treatment protocols require balancing the efficacy of the drug with its toxicity, while accounting for the underlying events of aggregation and inhibition at the molecular level. To address this key problem, we combine here protein aggregation kinetics and control theory to determine optimal protocols that prevent protein aggregation via specific reaction pathways. We find that the optimal inhibition of primary and fibril-dependent secondary nucleation require fundamentally different drug administration protocols. We test the efficacy of our approach on experimental data for the aggregation of the amyloid-?(1-42) peptide of Alzheimer's disease in the model organism Caenorhabditis elegans Our results pose and answer the question of the link between the molecular basis of protein aggregation and optimal strategies for inhibiting it, opening up avenues for the design of rational therapies to control pathological protein aggregation.

SUBMITTER: Michaels TCT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6642341 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Optimal control strategies for inhibition of protein aggregation.

Michaels Thomas C T TCT   Weber Christoph A CA   Mahadevan L L  

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20190628 29


Protein aggregation has been implicated in many medical disorders, including Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases. Potential therapeutic strategies for these diseases propose the use of drugs to inhibit specific molecular events during the aggregation process. However, viable treatment protocols require balancing the efficacy of the drug with its toxicity, while accounting for the underlying events of aggregation and inhibition at the molecular level. To address this key problem, we combine here  ...[more]

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